README.txt 

Date: 03/06/2023

This document provides an overview of the replication files for the paper entitled "Misperceptions in Sociopolitical Context:  Belief Sensitivity’s Relationship with Battleground State Status and Partisan Segregation."

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Data:

battleground3.csv - battleground state status of all states .
state_isolation.csv - state-level partisan segregation indices, created based on  countypres_2000-2016.csv (not required unless readers are interested in replicating the measure).
survey2019.csv - panel survey data collected in 2019 (final).
survey2020.csv - panel survey data collected in 2020 (final).

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Source dataset needed to replicate the creation of partisan segregation indices:

countypres_2000-2016.csv - county-level vote share data (do not include this in the replication data for public sharing)

The data file can be accessed at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ&version=5.0. 

References: 
MIT Election Data and Science Lab. 2018. "County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016", Harvard Dataverse, V5, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ, UNF:6:cp3645QomksTRA+qYovIDQ==countypres_2000-2016.tab.

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Analysis files:

main text.R - Code to reproduce tables and results shown in the main text
supplementary.R - Code to reproduce tables and figures in the supplementary materials
partisan_segregation.R - Code for creating partisan segregation based on countypres_2000-2016.csv 

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Analyses conducted using:
R version 3.6.3





